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FCC hears concern over bigger media
Commission aims to involve the public more in its decision-making process.
By WHITNEY JOHNSON
Staff Writer
The Federal Communications Commission is thinking of loosening its media ownership rules in favor of big-media conglomerates — yesterday, some of Los Angeles’ biggest names told the FCC to think again.
USC's Davidson Conference Center hosted Tuesday the first of six nationwide public hearings before the FCC rewrites its laws. Ten panelists representing Hollywood’s independent media and a standing-room-only crowd warned the FCC of the dangers associated with large conglomerates.
A common concern among the panelists was the lack of diversity in news coverage that results when many
Program participation helps smokers quit
Keck School Study looked programs, researchers at the Keck
School of Medicine said. at 48 cessation programs Together, doctors Steve
to analyze teen smoking. Sus*ma"’ p‘nf s"n an? Clyde Dent J ° analyzed the findings from 48 teen
smoking cessation programs in
By MARISSA LYMAN order to create a comprehensive
Contributing Writer analysis of teen smoking trends
With the right programs, teens ~ “e first extensive study of its
and adolescents between the ages kind.
of 12 and 19 will be about half After amassing the results of all
as likely to smoke when involved ^he studies, the team was able to
in the right smoking cessation , see Smokjng page 3 ,
media companies become encompassed under one large company.
The FCC in 2003 attempted to pass a set of rules increasing the number of newspapers, radio stations and television stations that a single company could own in one city. It also moved to lift a ban that prevents one company from owning a television station and a newspaper in one market
But after 3 million outraged e-mails expressed the public’s fury over the proposal, federal courts blocked the decision and ordered the FCC to reconsider the rules.
This time, the FCC aims to involve the American public in its decisionmaking process by “seek(ing) to establish appropriate balance between competition, diversity and localism,” said FCC commissioner Robert McDowell.
Panelists expressed disagreement with strengthening the role of major corporations.
www.dailytrojan.com
October 4,2006
No. 31
Landmark proposition package
[Hill TtOJl
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
INSIDE
Wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett is a gametime decision for Saturday’s match up against Washington. 20
The reform targets state infrastructure and is the first of its kind in more than 40 years.
Hundreds of feet above a grid-locked 405 Freeway, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood atop the roof of a Sherman Oaks’ shopping center Tuesday morning and urged Californians to vote for a package of five public works bonds on the Nov. 7 ballot, including one aimed at reducing traffic congestion in California.
This state infrastructure reform, which targets roads, schools, disaster preparedness and affordable housing, is the first of its kind in more than 40 years and will create a statewide system built for 37 million people instead of 20 million people, Schwarzenegger said.
The total cost of the package is $37 billion, the largest proposition ever put before California voters.
♦ Proposition 1A would protect Proposition 42 funding for transportation projects throughout the state.
♦ IB is geared at funding the transportation system with $19.9 billion, which Schwarzenegger touted while pointing to traffic on the adjacent freeway visible from the roof.
♦ 1C would invest $2.8 billion into'' creating more affordable housing.
♦ ID proposes to build more schools, putting $10.4 billion into school construction for new construction and modernization. Funds would also be allotted for career technical institutions and to refitting schools to be safer during earthquakes.
♦ IE aims at the rehabilitation of levees and flood control systems.
Schwarzenegger stressed this is a bipartisan effort, calling it the most bipartisan year yet.
“California has always been an economic, environmental and technological leader, and this November, we have the historic opportunity to make sure we continue this trend by building the roads, schools, levees and housing of the future,” Schwarzenegger said.
Making history. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke in Sherman Oaks, Calif., Tuesday about passing the state’s largest-ever proposition package.
The idea for the propositions came from a challenge from the governor earlier this year, said State Senate minority leader Dick Ackerman (R-Tustin).
“At the beginning of the year, the governor issued a challenge basically to the legislative leaders to see if we could come up with an infrastructure package,” Ackerman said, also speaking for Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro tempore Don Perata (D-East Bay).
“I think everyone knows that nothing’s been done in California for about
30 or 35 years,” Ackerman said.
“We have a tremendous backlog... we accepted the governor’s challenge, we put aside a lot of partisan bickering, and we want to do something that is going to be good not just for Southern California, Northern California or central, but something that is good for all of California, and I’m proud to say that I think we did it.”
The governor said both Democrats and Republicans have backed the proposals and that in many cases, the legislation is a necessity for keeping
I see Schwarzenegger, page 3 I
By JOHN LEGFTTINO
Staff Writer
USG approves more funding
Students get extra game tix
By TOREY VAN OOT
Staff Writer
The Ticket Office will sell a limited number of student tickets to this weekend’s home football game beginning today at 9 a.m., according to an e-mail sent to students without Spirit Activities Cards Tuesday.
The tickets, which were returned by University of Washington, will be sold for $15 on a first-come-first serve basis to students without a Spirit Activities Cards.
The sale of Spirit Activities Cards was capped at 12,000 for the first time this year. Although the Ticket Office said it has always warned students a I see Ticketing, page 10 '
Commuter senator special election receives seven applications.
Seven commuter students have applied to run in the upcoming special elections to fill two vacant commuter senator spots.
Candice Borromeo, a junior majoring in public relations; Megan Gomez, a senior majoring in psychology; Tz-Yu “Cher” Hsu, a student in the Marshall School of Business; Max Mullen, a senior majoring in business administration; Andres Ramos, a junior majoring in communication; Britni Rillera, a senior majoring in political science and Kirsten Singer, a freshman majoring in economics submitted applications for candidacy, according
I see Elections, page 10 I
The additional allocations were primarily from the Student Programming Fee.
By TOREY VAN OOT
Staff Writer
Senators approved an additional $61,614 in fall allocations to Program Board assemblies, discretionary board and internal committee accounts at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Senate allocations are funded primarily from the $54 Student Programming Fee, and fall allocations are granted using “money that comes in from students we did not expect to enroll in the university,” said Undergraduate Student Government Treasurer Jeremy Avila.
The 2006 budget projections were based on enrollment of an estimated
15,000 undergraduate students. The total number of students enrolled rose to 16,141 this fall, accounting for extra money available to USG through the fee. ■
While a variety of assemblies and student organizations received various amounts of funding, USG gave the most money to itself, allocating $17,000 to the USG development account, which is typically used to host the USG retreat, among other things.
Avila said this year the development account, whose budget was initially cut by 23 percent this year, would be used to put on several new programs, including a mid-year training for current USG staff and an end-of-term thank you party for staff, media, leaders of student organizations and members of the administration.
The development account I see Budget, page 10 I
Eating out at downtown’s Japanese restaurant, Zencu Sushi and Grill. 8
Fox News’guide to college sex is way off base. 4
News Digest.......2 Lifestyle_________7
Upcoming.....____2 Classifieds.......16
Opinions............4 Sports...............20
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy. High 73, low 60.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 72, low 58.

FCC hears concern over bigger media
Commission aims to involve the public more in its decision-making process.
By WHITNEY JOHNSON
Staff Writer
The Federal Communications Commission is thinking of loosening its media ownership rules in favor of big-media conglomerates — yesterday, some of Los Angeles’ biggest names told the FCC to think again.
USC's Davidson Conference Center hosted Tuesday the first of six nationwide public hearings before the FCC rewrites its laws. Ten panelists representing Hollywood’s independent media and a standing-room-only crowd warned the FCC of the dangers associated with large conglomerates.
A common concern among the panelists was the lack of diversity in news coverage that results when many
Program participation helps smokers quit
Keck School Study looked programs, researchers at the Keck
School of Medicine said. at 48 cessation programs Together, doctors Steve
to analyze teen smoking. Sus*ma"’ p‘nf s"n an? Clyde Dent J ° analyzed the findings from 48 teen
smoking cessation programs in
By MARISSA LYMAN order to create a comprehensive
Contributing Writer analysis of teen smoking trends
With the right programs, teens ~ “e first extensive study of its
and adolescents between the ages kind.
of 12 and 19 will be about half After amassing the results of all
as likely to smoke when involved ^he studies, the team was able to
in the right smoking cessation , see Smokjng page 3 ,
media companies become encompassed under one large company.
The FCC in 2003 attempted to pass a set of rules increasing the number of newspapers, radio stations and television stations that a single company could own in one city. It also moved to lift a ban that prevents one company from owning a television station and a newspaper in one market
But after 3 million outraged e-mails expressed the public’s fury over the proposal, federal courts blocked the decision and ordered the FCC to reconsider the rules.
This time, the FCC aims to involve the American public in its decisionmaking process by “seek(ing) to establish appropriate balance between competition, diversity and localism,” said FCC commissioner Robert McDowell.
Panelists expressed disagreement with strengthening the role of major corporations.
www.dailytrojan.com
October 4,2006
No. 31
Landmark proposition package
[Hill TtOJl
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
INSIDE
Wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett is a gametime decision for Saturday’s match up against Washington. 20
The reform targets state infrastructure and is the first of its kind in more than 40 years.
Hundreds of feet above a grid-locked 405 Freeway, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood atop the roof of a Sherman Oaks’ shopping center Tuesday morning and urged Californians to vote for a package of five public works bonds on the Nov. 7 ballot, including one aimed at reducing traffic congestion in California.
This state infrastructure reform, which targets roads, schools, disaster preparedness and affordable housing, is the first of its kind in more than 40 years and will create a statewide system built for 37 million people instead of 20 million people, Schwarzenegger said.
The total cost of the package is $37 billion, the largest proposition ever put before California voters.
♦ Proposition 1A would protect Proposition 42 funding for transportation projects throughout the state.
♦ IB is geared at funding the transportation system with $19.9 billion, which Schwarzenegger touted while pointing to traffic on the adjacent freeway visible from the roof.
♦ 1C would invest $2.8 billion into'' creating more affordable housing.
♦ ID proposes to build more schools, putting $10.4 billion into school construction for new construction and modernization. Funds would also be allotted for career technical institutions and to refitting schools to be safer during earthquakes.
♦ IE aims at the rehabilitation of levees and flood control systems.
Schwarzenegger stressed this is a bipartisan effort, calling it the most bipartisan year yet.
“California has always been an economic, environmental and technological leader, and this November, we have the historic opportunity to make sure we continue this trend by building the roads, schools, levees and housing of the future,” Schwarzenegger said.
Making history. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke in Sherman Oaks, Calif., Tuesday about passing the state’s largest-ever proposition package.
The idea for the propositions came from a challenge from the governor earlier this year, said State Senate minority leader Dick Ackerman (R-Tustin).
“At the beginning of the year, the governor issued a challenge basically to the legislative leaders to see if we could come up with an infrastructure package,” Ackerman said, also speaking for Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro tempore Don Perata (D-East Bay).
“I think everyone knows that nothing’s been done in California for about
30 or 35 years,” Ackerman said.
“We have a tremendous backlog... we accepted the governor’s challenge, we put aside a lot of partisan bickering, and we want to do something that is going to be good not just for Southern California, Northern California or central, but something that is good for all of California, and I’m proud to say that I think we did it.”
The governor said both Democrats and Republicans have backed the proposals and that in many cases, the legislation is a necessity for keeping
I see Schwarzenegger, page 3 I
By JOHN LEGFTTINO
Staff Writer
USG approves more funding
Students get extra game tix
By TOREY VAN OOT
Staff Writer
The Ticket Office will sell a limited number of student tickets to this weekend’s home football game beginning today at 9 a.m., according to an e-mail sent to students without Spirit Activities Cards Tuesday.
The tickets, which were returned by University of Washington, will be sold for $15 on a first-come-first serve basis to students without a Spirit Activities Cards.
The sale of Spirit Activities Cards was capped at 12,000 for the first time this year. Although the Ticket Office said it has always warned students a I see Ticketing, page 10 '
Commuter senator special election receives seven applications.
Seven commuter students have applied to run in the upcoming special elections to fill two vacant commuter senator spots.
Candice Borromeo, a junior majoring in public relations; Megan Gomez, a senior majoring in psychology; Tz-Yu “Cher” Hsu, a student in the Marshall School of Business; Max Mullen, a senior majoring in business administration; Andres Ramos, a junior majoring in communication; Britni Rillera, a senior majoring in political science and Kirsten Singer, a freshman majoring in economics submitted applications for candidacy, according
I see Elections, page 10 I
The additional allocations were primarily from the Student Programming Fee.
By TOREY VAN OOT
Staff Writer
Senators approved an additional $61,614 in fall allocations to Program Board assemblies, discretionary board and internal committee accounts at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Senate allocations are funded primarily from the $54 Student Programming Fee, and fall allocations are granted using “money that comes in from students we did not expect to enroll in the university,” said Undergraduate Student Government Treasurer Jeremy Avila.
The 2006 budget projections were based on enrollment of an estimated
15,000 undergraduate students. The total number of students enrolled rose to 16,141 this fall, accounting for extra money available to USG through the fee. ■
While a variety of assemblies and student organizations received various amounts of funding, USG gave the most money to itself, allocating $17,000 to the USG development account, which is typically used to host the USG retreat, among other things.
Avila said this year the development account, whose budget was initially cut by 23 percent this year, would be used to put on several new programs, including a mid-year training for current USG staff and an end-of-term thank you party for staff, media, leaders of student organizations and members of the administration.
The development account I see Budget, page 10 I
Eating out at downtown’s Japanese restaurant, Zencu Sushi and Grill. 8
Fox News’guide to college sex is way off base. 4
News Digest.......2 Lifestyle_________7
Upcoming.....____2 Classifieds.......16
Opinions............4 Sports...............20
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy. High 73, low 60.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 72, low 58.